Nature Quote by T.J. Llewelyn Prichard

“A man lives morally all his life, then in one weak moment commits an act that damns him in his own eyes and threatens…

— Greg Iles

“Assail me not with noble policy, for I care not at all for platitude. And surrender such tedious detail to greater minds than mine…

— Steve Earle

“There are no such things. All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp, without force. And madness and despair are a force.…

— Joseph Conrad

“Strange that men, from age to age, should consent to hold their lives at the breath of another, merely that each in his turn…

— William Godwin

“We know the cause which we are engaged in, and though a passionate fondness for it may make us grieve at every injury which…

— Thomas Paine

“We're all somewhat courageous, and we're all considerably cowardly. We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.”

— Sidney Poitier

“But I am weary of this place, and sick to death of playing at philanthropy and progress. Of all varieties of mock-life, we have…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“We all have struggle in our lives. We're all searching for personal freedom, whether we're in a bad place or trying to be true…

— Barbara Becker Holstein

“Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it is our…

— Benjamin Constant

“You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence…

— Iris Murdoch

“Everywhere risk and defiance weave through the most mundane daily affairs.”

— Lucia Berlin

“You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions…

— Octave Mirbeau